{"id":434103,"date":"2026-09-12T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434103\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:36:09","slug":"best-austin-bbq-joints-pop-up-in-london-and-more-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434103\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Austin BBQ joints pop up in London and more top stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note: It’s time to catch up on the top Austin news of the week, from local barbecue joints heading across the pond to a prime parcel of land’s upcoming redevelopment. Read on for our most popular stories, then plan your weekend right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. 2 of Austin’s greatest BBQ joints are smoking on holiday in London<\/a>. Two of Austin’s best barbecue joints are on a vacation together, and Londoners are benefiting. InterStellar and La Barbecue have started a one-month residency at The Ned, a London hotel, through October 4.<\/p>\n

2. Famous Austin hospitality group signs 6th St. lease for new restaurant<\/a>. One of Austin’s leading restaurant groups, Emmer & Rye Hospitality Group, has signed a lease at Old 6th, a part of Sixth Street that developers are working on revitalizing.<\/p>\n

3. Run-down Central Austin property to become restaurant and retail market<\/a>. A prime parcel of land at 2825 Hancock Dr., near Shoal Creek, is poised to become a new “neighborhood-focused retail destination.”<\/p>\n

4. Austin healthy food and farming org seeks help after losing city funds<\/a>. September is Hunger Action Month, and one Austin nonprofit is asking the community for help after losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in city funding.<\/p>\n

\"Perla's Perla’s is temporarily closed. Perla\u2019s Seafood & Oyster Bar\/Instagram <\/p>\n

5. South Congress seafood restaurant closes after extensive fire damage<\/a>. Popular South Congress seafood spot Perla’s is temporarily closed due to a kitchen fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor’s note: It’s time to catch up on the top Austin news of the week, from local barbecue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1068,745,110,427,7959,423],"class_list":["post-434103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-barbecue","tag-closings","tag-development","tag-hot-headlines","tag-most-popular-stories","tag-openings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}